Bluelegs Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 The reason your tank didn't cycle much is because you didn't have a big source of ammonia. Stick a piece of dead shrimp in there and see what happens. Having this ammonia spike won't kill the hermits, but it will increase your bacteria population, thereby decreasing the "mini-cycle" when/if the fish comes in. Good luck!. It's nifty! Link to comment
Toomin Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 i am impressed with this tank.. dont try to add fishes.. try addind a lobster/snails and tubeworm. Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Update time... unfortunately I don't have any new pics at the moment. My GF took the digi camera with her to Cuba for the week... leaving me at home with the dogs... nice eh? So I picked up a blue neon goby last week. This little guys is one heck of a little fish. Very active and eats like a pig. No spike in the levels at all over the last week since adding the little guys.. I've been testing the water params every evening after work at and the Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate levels are all at zero. Once I have new pics I'll post them up. Rich Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted February 5, 2006 Author Share Posted February 5, 2006 oK, Here we go.... an update with Pics.. The Neon Goby, still without a name With is cleaner shrimp buddy The not so happy Ricordia, think I had him too close to the lights at the top... just moved him to the sand today... GSP Link to comment
the_sass72 Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 I am impressed! Looks so nice, love the dog, it's precious! Sas Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted February 8, 2006 Author Share Posted February 8, 2006 So I had a little misshap yesterday. Nothing happened to the tank but a misshap none the less. I had pulled out my test kit on Monday evening, and sure enough my clumsiness took hold. I broke 3 out of 4 glass test vials. So now I'm only left with one. What a pain in the !*%. So now I've got to go shopping for single test vials. It sure is a nuisance to test water with only one test vial. GGRRRRR. Link to comment
nanoDarth Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 damn that sucks. but hey at least u didnt drop and break the vials inside the tank. Link to comment
The Keeper Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 I use a fastest kit, and it's vials are made of plastic, you might want to look into those.. As for the AC200, I wouldn't use the sponge. If you want to get rid of particulate mater, get a bag of carbon or purigen. I replaced the filter media of my AC20 with a little bit of sand/coral rubble, a bag of purigen in the middle, and some filter floss on the top.. Link to comment
Ricky@3rdshift Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Ok maybe I missed it but did you upgade the lighting at all? Also you mentioned the tank was a 2 gallon, it looks identical to my 1 gallon tank. I bought it from Petco. I now have 2 of the lights on top and also purchased the hydor heat pad for my tank. So far yours looks sweet, and makes me want to work on mine more. Link to comment
aquadrone100377 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 what are the dimensions on that tank, and where can I get one? Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted February 12, 2006 Author Share Posted February 12, 2006 Ricky@3rdshift - No I haven't upgraded the lights yet, but will be shortly. I also had the Hydor heater but switched it out for a little Theo heater because it is adjustable... with the heating pad a found that the temp still fluctuated at night... when the lights were off and because I turn the temp in the house down at night... the new heater keeps it nice and stable... this tank is a 2 gallon eventhough it looks identical to yours... aquadrone100377 - The Dimensions are (L*W*H) 9 3/4"x6"x8"... I live in Ontario Canada and the only place near me that sells them is Petcetera... Thanks for all the complements everyone... Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 Well, I haven't updated this tread in a long time... and unfortunately this is not a good update... My little Neon Goby decided to jump last night... I woke up this morning and checked on the tank and didn't see the little guy... I eventually looked at the floor and there the poor guy was... all dried up to a crisp and covered in some dog hair... This sucks.. Rich Link to comment
riotj Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 saw somewhere on this site in a thread about the heatpads and the manufactuerer's recommendation of unplugging them when the room temp reaches 76 or 78 or something to that effect. it may be a concern in the summer. Just thought i'd bring it up if you haven't seen that thread. I think it was Mike Guerreros thread on his 1g last year. Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted April 22, 2006 Author Share Posted April 22, 2006 I removed the heat pad a while ago and replaced it with a 25W Hydor Theo heater. Thanks for the concern... Now I'm trying to decide on another small fish for this tank.... Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 Update time... This past weekend I made a trip to a LFS. Luckily for me, the LFS owner was just about to frag a 10 lbs rock covered in zoos. After splitting the rock we found 5 pistol shrimp hanging out in one of the holes. Lucky for me as the LFS owner gave them to me for free! Of course i couldn't walk out of his store with 5 pistol shrimp and not spend any thing so I picked up a nice frag of orange coloured zoo's, about 40 polyps for 25 bucks. Here are the pics of the pistol shimp and I will post a pick of the zoo's once they've all opened up. Not sure what type of worm is in these pics though. Rich Link to comment
The Hound Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Nice tank, I have the same exact one, got it from Petco, though I am still using a Red Sea Nano HOB filter...seems to work, but conisdering upgrading to another pump with some better flow. I did purchase some different lighting. Corallife has thier mini hood that has a 9watt 10k compact and a 9watt actnic. It fits over the tank perfectly. I then picked up what basically is a graden hose holder from Lowe's. It's hard to explain but basically it lifts the hood above the tank instead of sitting right on top of it, and you can barely see it. It works great. I will have to post some pics in the future if you are interested. Link to comment
PaulieWalnuts Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 what are yur plans for the pistols? Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 Nice tank, I have the same exact one, got it from Petco, though I am still using a Red Sea Nano HOB filter...seems to work, but conisdering upgrading to another pump with some better flow.I did purchase some different lighting. Corallife has thier mini hood that has a 9watt 10k compact and a 9watt actnic. It fits over the tank perfectly. I then picked up what basically is a graden hose holder from Lowe's. It's hard to explain but basically it lifts the hood above the tank instead of sitting right on top of it, and you can barely see it. It works great. I will have to post some pics in the future if you are interested. I've been looking at upgrading to this lighting "system" for a while. If you could post a pic of the holder you are using to hold the light up that'd be great. Paulie - At this time I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all five of them. I ended up with all of them because I wanted to save them from being fed to my friend's mantis shrimp. Thanks, Rich Link to comment
The Hound Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 If I can remeber to bring my digi cam to work I will take a pic. Until then here is a link to Lowes.com to the actual thing I purchased: All Purpose Hanger Notice in the pic that there is a wide end and a slim end. I turned the hanger so that it sits on its side on the wide end. I can then place my 1 gallon tank between the lower wide end and the upper skinnier end (have I lost you yet?) This effectively makes a shelf hanging over the top of the tank. I placed four little rubber feet on the bars and then placed the coralife hood on top of that. Works great. Hopefully I wil get some pictures up so you can see it instead of dealing with my vague explanation. Link to comment
sandlot13 Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 nice little setup you got there....... pretty good work with the small space you have. more pictures please!! Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 Thanks Sadlot13... The Hound - Thanks for the links... I'll have to see if Home Depot has one of those holders... There isn't a Lowes in Ontario Canada that I know of. Link to comment
M.Ochala Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 keep us updated with some nice pics:) Link to comment
Steeltowndubber Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 Ok... here are some recent pics... Can anyone help me ID the type of Pistol Shrimps that were given to me. Here are a couple pics to help out. Here is a FTS that I took tonight... And lastly the orange zoo's that I picked up a week ago. Link to comment
SnowShiva Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Great Tank And the Zoo's look brill! I wish I was close to a UK fish store that so I could get in their good books and score some prime frags! Link to comment
irishtexan Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 I love pistols! Cool zoo's. It's coming along great. Link to comment
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